Land degradation reduces soil functioning and, consequently, the services that soil
provides. Soil hydrological functions are critical to combat soil degradation and promote soil …

This review provides a comprehensive overview about nonextractable residue (NER)
formation and attempts to classify the various types. Xenobiotic NER derived from parent …

An emerging experimental framework suggests that plants under biotic stress may actively
seek help from soil microbes, but empirical evidence underlying such a 'cry for help'strategy …

The relative contributions of aboveground versus belowground plant carbon inputs to the
stable soil organic carbon pool are the subject of much debate—with direct implications for …

Microbial communities play important roles in all ecosystems and yet a comprehensive
understanding of the ecological processes governing the assembly of these communities is …

Contamination of small-sized plastics is recognized as a factor of global change.
Nanoplastics (NPs) can readily enter organisms and pose significant ecological risks …

Plant phenology is known to depend on many different environmental variables, but soil
microbial communities have rarely been acknowledged as possible drivers of flowering time …

Ecosystem functions are threatened by both recurrent droughts and declines in biodiversity
at a global scale, but the drought dependency of diversity-productivity relationships remains …

The mechanisms that assist in the reclamation of salt-affected soils in arid and semi-arid
regions when treated with organic amendments have not been well characterized. In this …

Summary 1 The chemical composition of plant litter is commonly considered to indicate its
quality as a resource for decomposer organisms. Litter quality, defined in this way, has been …